Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Halifax was planning a final trip through the country he knows better than any other foreign diplomat, and more widely than most U.S. citizens. A speaking tour in Nebraska and Kansas would bring the total of states he has visited...
...Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire, an Indian massacre and a trained collie. But the dialogue somehow holds up under the strain, and there are a few wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress Garson, frequently cast in heavy-heroine or merely mealy parts, carries off her role with sparkle. But the steady gleam of the picture is the inimitable, jug-eared, perdurable Clark Gable, 45, back from the wars and still...
...Chief of Staff Eisenhower said: "On Okinawa a garrison of approximately 33,000 Air and Service Force troops will be permanently stationed." The U.S. Navy has indicated that it wants to keep at least nine major bases in the Pacific. A House committee is now on a Pacific appraisal tour...
...literary lion of Paris bounced into Manhattan last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel-partly because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...
...himself (as "internationally famous") and in the soothing magic of music. Bandmaster Goldman thought he knew one reason why G.I.s were so unhappy in the Pacific (see ARMY & NAVY) : they didn't hear enough music, and what they did hear was awful. He had made a U.S.O. tour to the Philippines and Japan to lead U.S. Army bands. When he got back, he blew a loud blatt at the War Department...